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I think a missing crystal is a huge difference. Especially for people who wanted to use the SAMs RTC.

Yes, well if they added the crystal I'd have to agree that it makes a difference, but they have removed it so there will not be any support for using it. Has someone actually gotten a board with the crystal? If then it's just a very small number of boards that has it.

(Don't get me wrong, I'd like the crystal too. But I'm sure they had their reasons for removing it.)

It's an question too, where you bye it, from the Arduino Store or somewhere else, maybe there is an first pullout with different design or the first pullout to the other reseller is different to the first pullout buyed from the Arduino Store.

I bought it from this store http://www.ptrobotics.com . It's one of the stores in Arduino's Distributors page http://arduino.cc/en/Main/Buy .From what I know I believe 5 Dues were dispatched to this store right after it went on sale. They arrived there sometime between thursday and friday on the release week.

I think a missing crystal is a huge difference. Especially for people who wanted to use the SAMs RTC.

Yes, well if they added the crystal I'd have to agree that it makes a difference, but they have removed it so there will not be any support for using it. Has someone actually gotten a board with the crystal? If then it's just a very small number of boards that has it.

(Don't get me wrong, I'd like the crystal too. But I'm sure they had their reasons for removing it.)

The RTC can be used just without the cystal you can choose in the register to use external or internal clock